Flood — Lee, Virginia

2021-03-28 · near Jonesville, Lee, Virginia

Event narrative

Streams out of their banks. Yards flooding. Water in a basement.

Wider weather episode

Thunderstorms with large hail spread northward across East Tennessee during the early morning hours of March 27, reaching southwest Virginia by late morning. These storms were associated with a warm front, which later stalled across northeast Tennessee. This stalled front was the focus of additional thunderstorms that produced damaging winds and flooding in the evening of March 27 and into March 28.

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Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event_id 951371. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.